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Boggarts are the protective spirits of specific locations, such as rivers, hills, or coastal areas. Whereas domestic boggarts sour milk and steal bedsheets, wild boggarts have been known to abduct children and drown strangers. They are are related to Irish púca.
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Ubir or obur (vampire) is a folkloric creature in Northwestern Turkic languages who blood drinker undead person or witch. Famous Turkish traveller Evliya Çelebi (writer of Seyahatname-Book of Travels, 17th century) tells obur stories. #FolkloreThursday
Illustrated by @neftisar
The Nuckelavee or "devil of the sea" was a terrifying Orcadian sea creature, part horse, part man with no skin, and black blood. Its breath could cause droughts, spoil crops or bring about a plague. The only way to escape its wrath was to step into fresh water. #FolkloreThursday
In Circe Invidosa the sorceress is painted in luminous sea greens & blues depicting jealousy.
In this scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses she is poisoning the ocean to transform her love rival Scylla into a sea monster.
(🎨 Waterhouse) #FolkloreThursday
The Bregdi is a #monster from the seas around Shetland which wraps its long fins around ships and pulls them down into the depths. However, it can be scared off by the touch of steel or by throwing an amber bead at it #FolkloreThursday
Art & info from: https://t.co/BiwXf01pNn
The superstition that when you break an egg you must crush the ends of the egg as well—otherwise a witch will collect the shell, build a boat, and start a crazy storm out at sea—was a common belief among fishermen.
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🖼️Witch raising a storm, 1562, unknown artist
“Be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.”
Oberon, Act 2, Sc 1, AMND
Img: Arthur Rackham, 1908, detail.
A leviathan is a sea monster, originally referred to in the Hebrew bible. In Rackham’s time it was thought of as a dragon/crocodile hybrid. #FolkloreThursday
We're so excited! 🌊🦭⛵️🧜🌊
#FolkloreThursday's NEW book is released today from @BatsfordBooks:
'#TreasuryOfFolklore – #SeasAndRivers: #Sirens, #Selkies & #GhostShips'
by @WillowWinsham and @DeeDeeChainey, illustrated by @JoeMcLaren!
https://t.co/r1bztZv2CT
Along with many other sea-birds, Irish fishermen believed seagulls held the souls of dead mariners and so should not be harmed in any way...
🎨Segantini #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs
This week’s #FolkloreThursday theme is #SeasandRivers So here are a few of the aquatic dragons I’ve worked on in recent months. The 2nd and 4th images were private commissions, the 1st and 3rd are from the new book. 🐉
Japanese printmakers of ukiyo-e were fascinated by waves. In a different image to the classic wave Koga Kano shows the divers looking out at the wild churning rocky sea, watching the changing water-hills of the land of luck. #SeasandRivers #folklorethursday
Illustrations for Sadko, the adventurer of Slavic bylinas, who visits the underwater kingdom, by Gennadii Spirin 2014 #folklorethursday #postsoviet
Even though SoS Pioneer of Olive Town just around the corner, I couldn't help myself to draw and simp my fav bachelorette from the classic FoMT!
Elly/ Eli, you are still my number one wife in my heart <3!!
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#procreate #harvestmoon #SoSFoMT #オリーブタウン #牧場物語
Created by my friend , I adore this image called “The Forest Bride” inspired by his love of the Robin of Sherwood TV series. Some serious folkloric wedding inspiration here #FolkloreThursday
How Stefy Loret de Mola graphically visualises abstract concepts > https://t.co/vXyYC3chU1
So this is what I am planning to do while drawing more nps. I am going to digitize the bachelor's and bachelorettes of stardew.
#stardewvalleyfanart #stardewvalley #fanart #stardewvalleyshane #digitalart
Pan smashed the reeds into pieces in a moment of rage but was soon struck with remorse. As he wept and kissed the reeds, he discovered that his breath could create sounds from them, thus he created a musical instrument in honor of his beloved. #FolkloreThursday